Persuasive appeals, literary devices ...
1
Read the following stanza from T.S. Eliot "The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock.
Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherised (anaesthetize) upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels:
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells
What is the effect of the simile on the passage's maning or tone?
2
Which poem uses alliteration?
3
Which figure of speech is used? (I helped you by putting it between ----)
Now that I'm an adult, I love my job and work hard at it. But when I was younger, I was a little ------motivationally challenged-----. I just couldn't see the payoff that might come from hard work.
4
What does the hyperbole in this text suggest?
At that time Bogotá was a remote, lugubrious city where an insomniac rain had been falling since the beginning of the 16th century.
5
What does the hyperbole in this text suggest?
When you smile
The whole world stops and stares for a while
—Bruno Mars, "Just the Way You Are"
6
Which statement primarily appeals to pathos, or emotion, to support the position that achieving the American Dream is still possible in today's world?
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